SCUSD sent a letter to families telling them to prepare for a possible reinstating of a mask mandate for students and staff as COVID-19 cases are up again.
entire pandemic. george washington university where i work announced that as of monday, all meeting restrictions will be lifted. and now for instance, basketball games can be attended by students and visitors. so things are getting better and i think we re going to start to see in waves this happen across the country. i ve always thought that s sort of the dogmatic restrictions of either locking down the whole country or saying that we won t we ll never lock down was really too binary and we needed to be nimble and flexible. and parts of this country where case rates are still high, still really need to remain with very sort of important stringent midigation measures. indoor masking. perhaps limiting the size of indoor events. places where the virus is really dramatically waning can and should relax. so it s more of a dimmer switch than an off/on switch. and it will be great if our
today the new york governor will lift the indoor mask mandate on businesses effective tomorrow. a separate mandate for schools will remain in place for now. c.d.c. recommends in door masking with areas of high or substantial transmission, by the c.d.c. definition includes most of the entire country. our hospitalizations are still high, our death rates are still high, so as we work towards that, and as we are encouraged by the current trends, we are not there yet. other health experts disagree, saying the availability of vaccines and treatments have reduced the risk to school children. some physicians and researchers have a group called urgency of normal. among those suggestions, making face coverings voluntary in schools. the unintended consequences of pandemic restrictions are now a greater risk to our children than covid, and we must act on that reality. pfizer projects it will generate
moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. starting tomorrow, public indoor masking for on vaccinated and vaccinated his knowledge required. strongly recommended. a big change to california s mask mandate, for happens in two weeks. march 12, schools and childcare centers can move from required masking to strongly recommended. but not all students will be a ladder able to go mask free. they were joining us i m larry. kristen: case rates. larry: test positively is deputy 3%. down 53%.